CIGNA and the Health Insurance Racket

Here at Brave New Films, we make films that reach out to the community. We often ask for input and involvement from our friends and neighbors across the country. Our most recent Sick For Profit documentary broke the mold. The response to "The Health Insurance Racket" (which profiles CIGNA) was both unexpected and overwhelming.

Our e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, and blog were flooded with stories from people hurt by CIGNA, words of support from families suffering with illness, and wonderful people eager to help.

Our three Sick For Profit videos have been viewed over 300,000 times!

The most fantastic and inspiring demonstration of support was in Seattle, Washington yesterday when 500 caregivers, seniors and people with disabilities took to the street at the CIGNA insurance offices.

Jo Joshua Godfrey was among the protesters. She's a CIGNA insurance subscriber who had cancer for over two years while CIGNA told her she had bronchitis. Out of desperation, she finally took her medical records to an "out-of-network" physician. He immediately told her that she had lung cancer and "they've known way back for years that you have cancer and they're not going to treat you."

By ignoring Jo's cancer, CIGNA's employees saved their company around $125,000. Ignoring Jo's cancer also almost cost Jo her life and gave her two years of suffering. Meanwhile, CIGNA's CEO Edward Hanway spends his holidays in a $13 million beach house in New Jersey.

Jo is one of the countless victims of a system built for profit, not people. Join Jo and others at www.sickforprofit.com and put the "care" back in Health Care!

 

 

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Comments

[Squeezer55]

This morning Fox News reported that a survey showed the majority of Americans were happy with their insurance coverage and that only 36% of Americans wanted what Pres. Obama was proposing. They didn't say who commissioned the survey or who was surveyed but that's part of their Fair and Balanced reporting.

[mamalisa38]

For profit health insurance is immoral.

[SuzyQtsy]

Did you know that American employers pay an average of 36% of wages toward health care insurance, while Medicare is paid by a tax of only about 3% of wages? Medicare must be doing something right. So, why not expand Medicare to cover all Americans from birth, and let employers pay a higher Medicare tax instead of paying such inflated insurance premiums? If 3% covers all older Americans now, why should it take 12 times that much to cover younger Americans? There must be a hideous amount of profit involved.

Capitalism is dead in the health care industry anyway. When is the last time an American consumer shopped and compared the cost of their bypass surgery? The industry that benefits the most from Capitalism being dead in the health care industry is the same industry that is threatening all other business in America by its inflated premiums. Think about that.

Expanding Medicare for all Americans would use a system that works well and that is already in place. It would not add to the deficit and it would not raise taxes. Employers could use their savings to pay higher wages, expand business facilities, create more jobs, and to compete more aggressively in both domestic and international markets. The increased revenues that would come in to the Treasury on higher employment, higher wages, and more profitable American businesses would reduce the deficit without raising tax rates on Americans, not even on higher wage-earners.

[Manx]

Where can I see the documentary, Sick For Profit? Was it on TV?

[buggedabouttheus]

The first circle of hell nearest the hottest part will sit insurance company executives and their minions in front of child molesters and used cars salespeople. CIGNA folks followed behind by United Health Care will lead the way. May they all have extra soaked gasoline drawers.

There is no sane reason for the United States of America not to have a single payer health care system for her people.

[propitiousmoment]

Anybody remember the Grisham novel and the movie called The Rainmaker? Exactly the stories we are hearing today, 10 or 15 years ago, but fiction. Eerily prescient. Deny, deny, deny.

[Jlong]

Every Republican and Blue dog who votes against reform should be forced to watch and choke on this video.

[schatsie]

United Health Care Offices in Owings Mills September 22 at NOON...Show up there....

[ultrababsg]

Once you understand all insurances operate as a pyrimid, you understand why insurance companies are the problem with healthcare...from cost to quality of care.